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Study: Spoonfuls can lead to medicine errors

CHICAGO (AP) - The song says a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down. But a new study says that kind of imprecise measurement for the medicine itself can lead to potentially dangerous mistakes. The

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Study: Spoonfuls can lead to medicine errors

Lindsey Tanner, AP Medical Writer
5:27 a.m. CDT July 14, 2014

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